CURRENT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

ADK Quad-County Decentralization Regrant ProgramDeadline for 2020 grant submission will be confirmed later in May.The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) State and Local Partnership Division administers an annual re-grant program that helps to ensure access to arts and cultural programs throughout New York State. These funds are administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake for Clinton, Essex, Franklin, and Hamilton counties. There are two grant opportunities through DEC, Community Arts and Arts Education.All applicants (new and returning) must attend one of our DEC informational seminars held throughout our service area. The seminars are led by our grant coordinator, Chelsea Provost, who will explain the program, answer questions, and provide application assistance. Preregistration is required.For more information, email Chelsea@adirondackarts.org or go to https://www.adirondackarts.org/support-the-arts/dec.php

Grant Opportunity: William G. Pomeroy Foundation, Historic Marker GrantsSubmission Deadline: & October 1, 2018Grants are available to 501(c)3 organizations and municipalities within New York State. Apply on-line at www.wgpfoundation.org. Presented by: The William Pomeroy FoundationMore Information: info@wgpfoundation.org or 315-476-3000 x2576

Past Opportunities (Mark your Calendar for next year!)

Application Deadline: February 15, 2016Grant Opportunity – Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and ArchivesSparks Grants encourage libraries and archives to prototype innovations that involve risk and that result in new tools, products, services, or organizational practices. Grantees are required to share project results, providing valuable information to the field and improving the ways libraries and archives serve their communities.Presented by: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)More information:http://www.imls.gov/applicants/detail.aspx?GrantId=19

Receipt Deadline: February 17, 2016Grant Opportunity - Digital Humanities Implementation GrantsThese grants are designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance understanding of central problems in the humanities, raise new questions in the humanities, or develop new digital applications and approaches for use in the humanities.Grants can support innovative digital-humanities projects that address multiple audiences, including scholars, teachers, librarians, and the public.Presented by: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)More information:http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/digital-humanities-implementation-grants

Postmark Deadline:March 1, 2016Grant Opportunity – 2016-2017 Documentary Heritage Program GrantsDocumentary Heritage Program (DHP) grants support projects that identify, survey, collect, arrange & describe, and make available important records relating to groups and topics traditionally under-represented in the State’s historical record. Not-for-profit organizations including archives, libraries, historical societies, museums, and other organizations that hold, collect, and make available historical records are eligible to apply. Presented by: New York State ArchivesMore information: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/grants/grants_dhp.shtml

Grant Deadline: April 5, 2016Grant Opportunity, 2016 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections Awards2:00 pm – 3:00 pmThe purpose of this awards program is to digitize and provide access to non-digital collections of rare or unique content in cultural heritage institutions, and to enhance the emerging global digital research environment in ways that support new kinds of scholarship for the long term.Presented by: Council on Library and Information ResourcesMore information:http://www.clir.org/hiddencollections/applicants/applicants.html#program-timeline--2016Receipt Deadline: May 3, 2016Grant Opportunity, NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller InstitutionsPreservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to preserve and care for their significant humanities collections (books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials).Presented by: National Endowment for the HumanitiesMore information:www.neh.gov/grants

Application Deadline: May 18, 2016Grant Opportunity - NYAC 2016 Professional Development GrantProfessional development grants to attend the 2016 NYAC conference which will be held June 8 - 10th at SUNY Plattsburgh are available to archives students, archivists, librarians, and others with archives or records management responsibilities. Awards may be applied to travel, lodging, meals, workshops, or conference registration.Presented by: New York Archives ConferenceMore information:http://www.nyarchivists.org/

Grant Opportunity: Women’s Film Preservation FundSubmission Deadline: June 1, 2016The Women's Film Preservation Fund, founded by New York Women in Film & Television, seeks proposals for the preservation or restoration of American films, from any era, in which women have held significant creative positions, including, but not limited to, writer, director, producer, editor and performerPresented by:New York Women in Film & TelevisionMore information:http://www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=22

Grant Opportunity: William G. Pomeroy Foundation, Historic Marker GrantsSubmission Deadline: June 30, 2016 & October 31, 2016 Grants are available to 501(c)3 organizations and municipalities within New York State. Apply on-line at www.wgpfoundation.org. Presented by: The William Pomeroy FoundationMore Information: info@wgpfoundation.org or 315-476-3000 x2576

Grant Opportunity: New York State Consolidated Funding ApplicationAnnounced: May 2, 2016Submission Deadline: July 29, 2016

Through the New York State Consolidated Funding Application (CFA), a single application for multiple sources of state funding, New York State is soliciting applications for funding to advance the priorities of the Regional Economic Development Councils (REDC). Funding will be available for the following projects:Direct Assistance to Businesses and Other OrganizationsCommunity Development Waterfront Revitalization EnergyEnvironmental Improvements SustainabilityPlanning and ImplementationEducation/Workforce Development Low Cost Financing

William G. Pomeroy Foundation Historic Marker GrantsGRANT TIMEFRAME: 1740-1916Only submit proposals that have historic significance within this time frame. Proposals outside of this time frame will be automatically disqualified.Materials to apply on line will be available starting Friday, August 5, 2016. Deadline to submit your Letter of Intent (LOI) and a listing of Primary Source(s) is Friday, September 16, 2016. Please submit your proposed marker inscription and the list the primary source documentation you have assembled to verify the historic accuracy of your text to our online database at by clicking here. Applications must be submitted by Monday, October 3, 2016. We expect to award grants for this program by the end of October 2016.

The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) requests proposals for Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP) grants that highlight, showcase and interpret the rich heritage of the region. The two grant categories include:Corridor of Commerce Interpretive Theme Grants

In September 2017, the World Canals Conference will be held in Syracuse, NY. The CVNHP will partner with the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and New York’s other national heritage areas to highlight interconnected waterways of Vermont, New York and Quebec. The primary purpose of the 2017 Corridor of Commerce Interpretive Theme Grants is to highlight the connections of these waterway with a focus on the commercial, transportation and industrial innovations associated with them. Projects that showcase and interpret the contributions of minority groups and women in these innovations are strongly encouraged. All funded projects should be accessible by the public by July 1, 2017. The LCBP will provide CVNHP grants of up to $5,000 with a total amount available at $37,500.

Local Heritage Grants The LCBP will provide CVNHP grants of up to $5,000 for projects that involve active participation from youth and students in the research and discovery of the commercial, transportation and industrial innovations associated with their community, and the creation of new artistic expressions, or interpretation of those topics utilizing fresh perspectives and/or new technology. A total of $40,000 will be distributed.​Applications for both categories are due on September 22, 2016. Grant applications are available on the CVNHP website at http://www.champlainvalleynhp.org/. For further information about the program, contact CVNHP Assistant Director Jim Brangan at the Lake Champlain Basin Program office at (802) 372-3213. All grant awards are contingent on the anticipated FY2016 CVNHP funding.

The Preservation League of New York State now has applications available for the fall 2016 round of the Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) program. We are grateful to the New York State Council on theArts and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor for their generous support of this program. Please see the program guidelines and call for applications, attached to this email. Potentially interested applicants must call the Preservation League at (518) 462-5658 x 10 before receivingan application. We do not make applications available online.

The TAG program funds up to $3,000 with a $500 required match from each applicant. Please let me know if you have any questions. The program is open to not-for-profits and municipalities that own or lease structures that serve an arts or cultural purpose. The deadline for the fall round ofthe program is September 12th, 2016.

​Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) Grants: The deadline to apply for DHPSNY's free planning and assessment services is quickly approaching! Eligible New York institutions should submit all materials by Friday, October 14, 2016.

DHPSNY currently offers servicesin three major areas: archival needs assessments, preservation and conservation surveys, and strategic planning assistance. These services aim to improve adherence to best practices and are tailored to an organization’s unique circumstances.

Staff is available to assist you in completing the application forms. Contact DHPSNY Program Coordinator Anastasia Matijkiw for assistance, questions about eligibility, or additional information at(215) 545-0613 or amatijkiw@dhpsny.org.

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